Josh Wright

Order of Operations (part three) Hi folks!

Hey folks, here is my final part in my Order of Ops series (and the last blog of the term)

Please have a browse, and interact as you see fit!

open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Order of Operations (part three) Hi folks!

Hey folks, here is my final part in my Order of Ops series (and the last blog of the term)

Please have a browse, and interact as you see fit!

open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Made this for my Year 7s and Year 8s tomorrow after @joausten.bsky.social's fab session on Number Sense at #Mathsconf39. Will be very interesting to see how it goes!

#MathsToday

#mathstoday
I've had in the past students finding it difficult to decide if an expression would factorise into a single or double bracket. So I created a mix of 20 questions to try and build that skill of deciding which one to use. Unsurprisingly a lot of them struggled. Better now than an exam!

In #MathsToday I had a collapsed group of mixed ability 7s due to a trip, so we played expressions bingo. Each box had an expressions, rolled one (or 2) dice and those were x values. Used Excel to generate using the correct answers. Fun time all round

In case you haven’t seen it my last post was on how I’ve incorporate fractions when there was no fraction unit of work.

open.substack.com/pub/fantasti...

During our #MathsConf39 session, Jason and I revealed our new project: The History and Maths in Education Network (historyand.mathsy.space) which aims to facilitate discussion and sharing of resources & ideas amongst folks interested in using history themes to enrich maths education.

🏛️🎓 #MathsToday

Thank you for attending, hoping at least some of it was worth the long trek down the corridor 😂

Next cover lesson is up! Unit 2 Foundation - simplifying expressions, indices, expanding, factorising and substitution etc. Print the double sided worksheet and use the video to support students. www.hannahkettlemaths.co.uk/cover
#mathstoday

That I did. At some point I will reconstruct the cube 😂

Shout out to @joausten.bsky.social and @rjs2212.bsky.social for some really great sessions too: the former being a deep dive into number sense with stuff that translates really well to secondary, and the latter being what I can only describe as a tsunami of maths activities

Fantastic Mathsconf today. @morrismaths359.bsky.social particularly knocked it out of the park. Hope those who came to my session on Significance and Standard Form got something from it. It will be making its way in parts to Substack soon 😊

“How I teach standard form It’s all about place value No between 1 and 10, it’s all about significance. Introduce with number sentences. Give a chance to talk indices early on. Can use counting as a back up, but not the primary way so number of zeros errors happen less often”

Always fascinating to get a window on how other people teach specific topics; like this from @jwrightmaths.bsky.social in session 3 #MathsConf39

Really looking forward to #Mathsconf39 today. Come say hi if you spot me! #MathsToday

This sounds like a twin prime conjecture

#Mathstoday
Both of my year 9 classes did loads of substitution work today. Got the exercise from the foundation sumbooks 2002. They are available online as a pdf. Loads of questions if the students just need loads of practice.

A starter screen asking students to estimate the number of televisions on Earth, giving reasons for their answer.

In #MathsToday (and yesterday) Y7 just have a baseline test, so I've given them a nice, silly starter

In #mathstoday, we started conic sections in FP1 with some model-making!

Unlocking Difference of Two Squares Planned and purposeful journey of multiplication: building on the area model to unlock quadratic free difference of two squares.

Last Friday I posted about how we have encorporated difference of two squares before factorising. We follow the @lasalleed.bsky.social scheme of work.

substack.com/@fantasticma...

#Mathstoday
Year 11 looked at Magic squares today. Which leads onto factorising quadratics. Next lesson will be just factorising quadratics.
(For some reason rotating won't work)

Order of Operations (part two) Hi folks!

Hi all

Part 2 (of 3) of my Order of Operations series is now on Substack.

If you want it a day early and straight to your inbox, subscribe for free!

open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Order of Operations (part two) Hi folks!

Hi all

Part 2 (of 3) of my Order of Operations series is now on Substack.

If you want it a day early and straight to your inbox, subscribe for free!

open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

My current #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social
2 - @morrismaths359.bsky.social (I don't think I have a a choice here)
3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social
4 - Charlie Harber
5 - @runningstitch314.bsky.social

completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

Really looking forward to #MathsConf39 this weekend. I’m going to sessions led by
@robeastaway.bsky.social
@nathanday.bsky.social
@jwrightmaths.bsky.social
@justmaths.bsky.social
Jason Yip & @teakayb.mathsy.space

#MathsToday I had to talk to students (again) about why trusting AI to do their homework is not a good idea. 2nd time I have caught it out in a week.
#Maths teachers using online hwk platforms, what do you do about this?

#MathsToday was the first ratio lesson of the year with my bottom set 10s.

Used models for all the classic question types, lots of nice progress (well, by P5/6 double standards anyway 😂)

Order of Operations (part 1) Hi folks!

Right, this week begins a series on what is a very contentious issue. I do not profess to have the ultimate answer, but here I begin to discuss the language of Order of Operations. Please feel free to discuss here or there!

jwrightmaths.substack.com/p/order-of-o...

Order of Operations (part 1) Hi folks!

Right, this week begins a series on what is a very contentious issue. I do not profess to have the ultimate answer, but here I begin to discuss the language of Order of Operations. Please feel free to discuss here or there!

jwrightmaths.substack.com/p/order-of-o...

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Parsa Hassan-Yazdi
2 - @rfb23.bsky.social & @priy45hah.bsky.social
3 - @jwrightmaths.bsky.social
4 - @dagsmaths.bsky.social‬
5 - @mrmattock.bsky.social‬

Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

@karenshancock.bsky.social Tried to tag you in the original post but it messed up the formatting...